A Canadian expatriate living and exploring first France now Germany, then BACK to FRANCE (!!!) with her family; former fashion designer, turned unexpected UNLIKELY NOMAD, raising two children, writing, photographing, painting, playing piano (who knew!!) and blogging - and now... full time student at ART SCHOOL!! (I MUST be crazy!!)

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Very nice... and monumental too. There was a quieter love in the monarch's life.

Because there's John Brown, humble Scot servant, who was with her for decades. I was in Crathie Scotland, near Balmoral Castle, and the vicar took me to see Brown's grave. He showed me the little church house looking over the wall and said that Victoria came to that one wee window and wept, overlooking the grave - every day for a year (other windows in the manse were closed in for her privacy).

I saw the gravestone (took photos too) On his death Queen Victoria paid him the tribute (on his stone).